“I am not sure what you mean by above. Are you trying to suppress all sensations?” :
– Not at all. It’s a tool to dissolve any eventual mental fermentation related to any sensing and to intensify here-and-now-awareness.
One more example: supposing that i’m eating something usually considered tasty, to prevent me from being overflowed by defilement related to such sensing i move my attention to another sensing…and so on.
Or as you very well put : “An indriya becomes an ayatana only when the sense experience taken in by the indriya (say eyes), make one’s mind form greedy or hateful thoughts. If what is seen makes one greedy or hateful, stop looking at it, and focus attention on something different.”
Thanks for the concise counselling, Lal.